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Moved This WordPress Blog to A New Web Host

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:18:23 +0000

This blog came to a standstill for last few months. I got busy with my work. And as lazy guy as I am, I couldn’t even gather some energy to write a blog post. Now few days back, I had to wake up. My blog was running out of time, literally. The web host package I had from Hostable.com was about to expire. So either I had to renew my web hosting or find a new web host for my WordPress blog. I had no complaints with Hostable.com. Great uptime and fast server and prompt support But now I just wanted to try something new and get engaged more with blogging activity. After all, I have had to migrate WordPress blog from a web hosting to another. But it’s not that big of a struggle. But I wanted to find the easiest of easy ways of doing it. And after quite a bit of searching and trying out different options and WordPress plugins, I have to say I have come up with a pretty easy way that requires only a few clicks to migrate your WordPress blog to a new host. I will write about it in my next blog post. But now I am planning to sit back, at least for tonight, as my WordPress blog is now up and running with serverhub.com

I will have more tweaks to do in my WordPress admin later.

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How To Open All External Links From WordPress Blog Posts In A New Window

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:13:27 +0000

Suppose you have written hundreds of blog posts in your WordPress blog and didn’t make your WordPress post links to open in a new window or tab by selecting the “Open link in a new window/tab” in post menu. Now you want to do that for all of your existing WordPress blog posts. One way to do this is through a WordPress plugin that I wrote about previously. Or if you want to do it without any additional WordPress plugin, then you will have to login to phpMyAdmin interface from your web hosting control panel and execute the following queries in WordPress MySQL database:
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How To Add Facebook Fan Page Button To WordPress Blog
admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:18:06 +0000
Yes, I am talking about Facebook Fan Page button, not Facebook Fan Page widget   . If you are looking for a way to add Facebook Fan Page widget to your WordPress blog, just check this blog post of mine that I wrote recently. Anyways, this Facebook Like button is basically a strip down version of Facebook Fan Page widget. It doesn’t have any of your latest site stream or doesn’t even show the faces of Facebook users who liked your fan page. It will just show a thumbs up image as the screenshot below:

Your user can like your Facebook fan page by clicking on it without leaving your website. If you would like to save some space on your sidebar or like a minimalist clean design, just install Facebook Simple Like WordPress plugin and configure it using your Facebook Fan Page url.
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Free Download My Favourite Flash Cricket Game
admin — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:58:17 +0000
I found this free flash cricket game several years back when I was still in college   . I used to play it and love it. Then I lost track of it. Few months back I got it from a friend’s laptop and surprisingly I liked it just like I used to do before. This is simple. You just have to bat. A bowler will bowl 12 overs to you and you just have to stand and deliver. Time the shots and computer will compute the runs based on that. A tiny little game for fun  

It’s called npower Test Series. Download it for free and bat as long as you want.
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How To Copy Putty Terminal Output To File
admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:57:25 +0000
I was running some Java program to get output from a database from a remote server using Putty. Basically, that Java class just executes the select statement that the user enters using JDBC and prints the output to console. But the select statement that I executed returned a bit big dataset   . I couldn’t find a way to select the whole output. So I was thinking like rather than writing command to copy output to clipboard and then writing it to a file, if there is an option to directly print Putty output to a .txt file that would be great. And yes, there really is a built-in feature in Putty that can log all session output to a file that you specify. Just look at the below screenshot:

Go to Session > Logging while you are in Putty. There you can specify the file name where the log should be written and you can choose Printable output or All session output depending on your needs. Now you will get same output in the file as you see in Putty console. Just copy paste the portion that you want  
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How To Add Facebook Fan Page Widget To Your Site
admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:15:55 +0000
I created a Facebook Fan page for this blog few days back. And I wanted to add a Facebook fan page button to the sidebar so that readers can directly like it from inside this blog. But creating a widget took some time as I wasn’t able to to find a working link where I can get the code snippet to add the Facebook page like widget. The links from other blogs were pointing to dead url actually. But after a bit of search I got to Facebook developers page where you can change and live preview your widget and copy the code snippet to add to your site or blog. You will get different options like code for HTML5 or IFRAME.
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How To Execute Shell Script In Windows
admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:21:30 +0000
Sometime back I wanted to compile and execute some Java files. I wrote a batch file for that as I use Windows. But then I needed to send it to some Linux system. So I wrote a shell script too. And then I thought of testing the shell script in my local machine before sending. I needed an easy way to run shell script in my Windows 7. Cygwin came to the rescue. It’s a popular Unix emulator for Windows. Using its command-line you can work with core Unix/Linux based functionalities under Windows.

So just install it and open the cygwin terminal. And execute your shell script using normal Linux command inside Windows.
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View Formatted JSON In Firefox Just Like You Do For XML
admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:20:22 +0000
Sometime back I wrote a blog post comparing performance of few online Json viewers. But what about if you can format your JSON data inside Firefox without any need to go to any website? Just install JSONView Firefox add-on. And now when you open any JSON document in your browser, instead of asking to download, it will show you formatted and highlighted data with collapsible objects and arrays. It is just like what you view when you open an XML document in Firefox.

It’s pretty cool   . But still I think http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/ is somewhat better while handling large JSON document.
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How To Show Blog Posts In Place Of Message Box And Widgets In Responsive Theme Home Page
admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:01:49 +0000
I was playing with Responsive WordPress theme yesterday for the first time. It’s a pretty popular free WordPress theme. But I had a bit of hard time just to show my recent blog posts in homepage   . It has some widgets and one call to action message box in the homepage by default. But as I found out, changing it was quite easy and they really do have better support than most of the other free WordPress themes. After looking here and there a bit, I found their support forum. And my question was already answered. You just need to create a page and select their Blog Template as the template of the page.

Then in WordPress admin, from Settings > Reading you need to select static page as your homepage and set newly created page as the Front page.

 
You are done. Here is forum link where you can get all the details.
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Yahoo Chat Rooms Will No Longer Be Available Within A Week
admin — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:59:47 +0000
Yahoo! is closing down all the public chat rooms in Yahoo! Messenger. It will take effect from December 14, 2012. And that just means within a week you have to say good bye to your favourite chat rooms. It will become same as Google Talk or Windows Live Messenger. You can no longer bump into somebody and have a conversation with them. Sounds pretty boring actually. Here is the official info from Yahoo Messenger Blog.
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